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"Dinner With Friends" is a play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, but I'm sure there are earlier examples.

http://www.amazon.com/Dinner-Friends-Donald-Margulies/dp/155...

This is a trademark issue-- not copyright. "Likelihood of confusion" on the part of the consumers is the main standard. Seems unlikely a a judge or jury will find that the reasonable consumer will conflate the app and the play.

Sure, but trademark is vulnerable even more than copyright on issues of generic construction.

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